What Does Ponyboy Represent In The Outsiders

Dally only said some words to him and ran off. Dally only said a few words to Johnny because he feels bad for Johnny because of his home life getting abused. Dally views Johnny as his long-lost brother. In the quote, Dally says he doesn't want Johnny to get hard in jail. Dally is basically

Another difference between Dally and Johnny are Dally love to fight and has a huge record with the police, while Johnny hates

A similarity Johnny and Dally both share is a terrible home life. Early in the novel, Ponyboy dissects Johnny’s homelife. Pony says, “His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was

Johnny wants to turn himself in for killing bob. “ I ain't got no record with the fuzz... Johnny had a deathly fear of cops”(87). Johnny thinks that it is best for him to turn himself into the police for killing bob. Since he has no record he thinks he will be let off easy. Johnny is scared of the police which is probably why he has no record. Jolly doesn't like to break the rules. Even though, Johnny is very law abiding and play by the rules, Dally is the exact opposite In the beginning of the story the author is defining all the characters. “He has been arrested, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids”(11). Dally just about breaks every single law/rule. He has been arrested 3 times and the first is when he is just ten years old. He is in gang fights and a lot of other rumbles. Part of this might relate back to the fact that he is on his own and pretty much has no family. This is how Dally finds happiness by fighting and breaking laws.

This scene happened when the blue mustang the Socs drove pulled up to Pony and Johnny in the park and fought Pony and Johnny and it led to them drowning Pony so Johnny stabbed Bob. This was a very important scene to have in both the book and the movie because it leads climax and would change the plot if it wasn’t in them. Secondly, Johnny was in the church fire that Pony, Dally, and Johnny went in to save children and no one thought he would survive, “Johnny, well, I don’t know about him. A piece of timber caught him across the back - he might have a broken back, and he was burned pretty severely” (95). Without this scene in both the movie and the book, Johnny wouldn’t have died, and Dally wouldn’t have died, and it would have turned out differently at the end of the book. Next, Dally was running to the lot while three police were chasing him, and he was meeting the others

Dally is not all bad in Johnny’s eyes. Johnny sees Dally as a hero and thinks of him as fearless. Johnny admires and honors how Dally takes the blame for Two-bit and goes to jail for a crime that he did not commit. Also the way that Dally jumps into the church to save Johnny shows that he is heroic. At the theater Pony explains, “Johnny worshiped the ground Dallas walked on.”

When Johnny died, Dally couldn't take it, because it was his buddy, it finally broke Dally and he went and robbed a convenience store, which eventually got him killed by the cops, but his last words he said something about Pony, he realized that maybe he had something in life that was worth living, but it was too late for

During the church fire, a falling timber hits Johnny, Dally runs in to save him, he runs into a collapsing building without any second thought, and risks his life to save Johnny. Dally a criminal who has had many run-ins with the law, yet when given the choice he become a hero by rescuing Johnny. Dally especially loves Johnny. After the Greasers won the rumble he rushed to the hospital to notify Johnny. Johnny didn’t try to grin at him “Useless... Fighting’s no good...” (page 126) a moment later, “the pillow seemed to sink in a little and Johnny died” (page 126). Dally rushed through the hallway, he packed an unloaded gun and took his car to rob a store and when the police showed up, he pulled out his unloaded gun and then he let himself get shot by the police because living without Johnny isn’t living. After, the impact of the bullet; there was a “grim triumph on his face” (page 186). Ponyboy utters “I knew that’s what he wanted” (page 186) he wanted to die because he lost Johnny, he was all he had living without Johnny was no living so it better to die. If Dally could die for someone in the way, I would consider him to be brave and a hero.

Dally gets in dangerous fights and slashes tires knowing if he will get beat up or caught it's not like his parents will care. Dally thinks there's no good in the world and will not care if he goes to jail. Ponyboy thinks “You blasted fool. They don't know you’re only bluffing. And even as the policemen's guns spit fire into the night i knew that was what Dally wanted”(154). By Dally wanting to get killed, he is putting little value on his live. Likewise Dally, Johnny also puts little value on his live. Johnny wants to turn himself in when he kills the soc because he knows if he does it won't matter, because he thinks no one would be worrying about him. Johnny writes in his letter to Ponyboy “ Listen, i don't mind dying now. It's worth it. It's worth saving those kids. Their lives are worth more than mine”(178). By Johnny saying there lives are worth more than mine means that he doesn't place value on his live as he doesn't mind dying. In the end Johnny and Dally place little value on their lives.

When Johnny asking about his family Dally replies, “Shoot, my old man don't give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter. That don't bother me none” (Hinton 107). Similarly to Johnny, Dally does not have good life in his family either. Instead of desperately wanting love from his family members, Dally does not care about his family and his father does not care either. Ponyboy is introducing Dally by saying, “Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten. He was tougher than the rest of us- tougher, colder, meaner” (Hinton 13). To clarify, Dally had gone through tough situations that made him tough and he was not afraid of anyone. This transformed him into a person who was hardened and had lost most of his innocence. The moment Dally died, Ponyboy said surely, “He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he’d die someday” (Hinton 187). To put it in another way, Dally asked for death because he could not face the truth of Johnny’s death. Different from Johnny, Dally did not die in piece, where as this death was caused by mourning over Johnny. In conclusion, Dally’s family background had a significant impact throughout his life on his hardened personality and his perspective toward

Dally purposely wanted to die from grief over the only person he cared about; Johnny. The similarities between Johnny and Dally kept them as close friends, but also led to their

Throughout the book, Dally is portrayed as a delinquent with a lack of refinement and care for laws. But on numerous occasions, we see Dally acting in such a way that suggests that there is more to his character than thought. For instance, when Pony and Johnny are on the run after they killed Bob, Dallas tells them a plan and a safehouse to go to, gives them his gun, and even gives Pony his jacket and a new pair of clothes when he notices that Pony is shivering (pg 59-62). This shows us that Dally cares for the boys and wants them to be safe and not get in trouble. Later, when Pony and Johnny are reading Great Expectations, Johnny remarks that Dally reminds him of a southern gentleman.

"If you don't have anything, you end up like Dallas... and I don't mean dead, either. I mean like he was before. And that's worse than dead" (Hinton 176). Dally wasn't able to find the "sunset" in the situation, like how they had won against the Socs, he still had the rest of the gang, a lot of the other hoods and Socs are actually good guys and he could still have mourned Johnny, and kept the memory of him alive by carrying out what was

But once he sees Johnny it gives him something to love and care about. He made sure that Johnny didn’t become violent. He says in the book multiple times he cares about Johnny he said “Johnny…I just don’t want you to get hurt.” A quote also says that “Johnny was the only thing that Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone.” Later in the book Johnny dies and it is too much for Dally and he gets himself killed. Dally was so distraught, he wanted to be dead.

Johnny and Dally are similar in ways one may not see. The way both Dally and Johnny place little value on life is an important one. Dally does not see his life as meaningful. His view of life is it does not matter to anyone whether he is dead or alive. Pony is thinking about Dally after he is killed and about why he is killed. “I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted” (154). Ponyboy says that Dally wants to be dead, and he could do anything to get what he wants. He can manipulate everything just so it goes his way. Similarly, Johnny is like Dallas in this way. Had not met the gang, he would have run away or killed himself a long time ago. Johnny has it rough at home and will do anything to escape it. He is having a rough time after he and Ponyboy bumped into the socs on their way home with Cherry and Marcia. Johnny tells Pony at the vacant lot: ‘“I can’t take much more . . . . I’ll kill myself or something”’ (47). Johnny does not like the idea of Socs and Greasers and does not want to take it anymore. Dally and Johnny both put very little value on their lives.